if clinton there was a sense of pending disaster as they made sandbags available. if you think they will be able to stop the water from coming in. >> these buildings are very old. on this block, they are almost 300 years old. there are a lot of cracks and holes in the mortar, especially where the joins me. the water will be coming in if it wants to. >> some king street restaurants move their furniture out of town to storage facilities elsewhere. others loaded up with sandbags and helped. >> we did all of the normal stuff. >> they may have been relatively unharmed during mr. de, but its aftermath could be felt in this area for several days to come. officials with alexandria are saying it could be up to 72 hours of flood problems. this restaurant that we featured earlier you can see the water is already looking at the door. they moved everything upstairs and they are hoping that will be enough. it has really started flooding in this area. that employee is doing what will be a few tile job because it will still make its way into the back area of that restaurant. high